AACIPM website includes a repository of resources that support the mission to advance access to equitable, whole person, multimodal, guideline-concordant integrative pain management.
More resources and publications will be coming soon. If you have suggestions about relevant resources that should be included, please contact Amy Goldstein.
AACIPM’s First Symposium Builds Deeper “Community” Among Important Leaders Leveraging Shared Interest in Advancing Person-Centered Pain Management On May 13-14, 2020, AACIPM facilitated its first online symposium titled, Innovation & Progress in Person-Centered...
Finding comprehensive integrative pain management (CIPM) is as elusive as the prince finding his real princess who could feel the pea under the twenty mattresses! We are so grateful for the opportunity to share our lived experiences with the many stakeholders who...
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced substantial changes in many aspects of our lives, as witnessed by the soaring unemployment rate, oil prices sinking so low that companies actually were paying people to take oil from them, and the widespread shutdown of social...
Innovation & Progress in Person-Centered Pain Management May 13-14, 2020 Register now to join all or part of the Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management’s (AACIPM) virtual symposium. This two-day symposium includes a careful sampling of the...
KHC Kickstarts Employer Conversation on Advancing Comprehensive, Integrative, Evidence-Based Pain Management Kentuckiana Health Collaborative (KHC) hosted an excellent symposium that included AACIPM Director, Amy Goldstein, sharing updates about the national movement...
Kavitha Reddy, MD, Whole Health System Clinical Director, Veterans Health Administration, was one of five presenters during the focus group facilitated by AACIPM and Midwest Business Group on Health on March 4 in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Reddy shared some exciting...
Message from the Director Joint Efforts with Purchasers of Healthcare I hope this issue finds all of you safe and healthy during this challenging time. Our AACIPM team is focused on advancing our work as we navigate through this uncharted territory. On a positive...
The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions (National Alliance) and AACIPM have joined forces to help employers ensure safe, high-quality and affordable treatment options for pain management for their employees and family members.“Lost productivity, wage...
by Denise Giambalvo, VP at MBGH and Amy Goldstein, Director at AACIPM The Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (AACIPM) and the Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) convened its first Health Care Purchasers Focus Group on March 4 in...
Dr. Jeffery Dusek is the Director of Research, Connor Integrative Health Network, University Hospitals, Cleveland OH and an Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. He also serves as the...
Message from the Director Keeping People with Pain at the Center of Care In practical terms, AACIPM acts as a watchdog, connector, and activator to accelerate the timeframe for quality pain management to be better understood and accessible for the tens of millions of...
AACIPM and pain care advocates will present during the National Association of Social Workers' (NASW) Annual Conference in June. The presentation - "Best Practices at the Intersection of Pain Management, Opioid Use and Mental Health" - will bring together three...
By: Adam Seidner, M.D., M.P.H., CMO, The Hartford On February 5th I participated in the Implementing Integrated Pain Management: Lessons from North Carolina Health Systems and Beyond conference at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Participants came together...
Message from the Director Welcome to the first newsletter from the Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (AACIPM)! We are excited for you to read about our launch and accomplishments in the first few months. Our core projects are fully under...
Dr. Vanila Singh is one of AACIPM’s Advisory Committee members and a tireless advocate for patient-centered pain management. She has an important vantage point from her recent position as Chief Medical Officer at HHS and leading to completion the Best Practices Pain...
This interactive and dynamic pre-congress workshop will take place at the 2020 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 28. AACIPM's director, Amy Goldstein, will join esteemed colleagues to focus on what participants can...
On February 5, a group of key stakeholders, including Amy Goldstein, Director, AACIPM and many of our Advisory Committee members and other participating leaders, will convene in Durham, NC, as the first of a 3-part program as part of the Duke School of Medicine Opioid...
NCIPC’s Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC), a federal advisory committee, is establishing an Opioid Workgroup to provide expert input and observations on a possible update or expansion of the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States,...
Published by Integrator Blog News & Reports The Integrator Blog News & Reports annually marks the winter solstice with a Top 10 for Policy and Action in Integrative Health and Medicine—and AACIPM is #2. In the selection of the Top 10, “the accent is on...
This opinion piece is authored by two of AACIPM's advisory and planning committee members. This was published in Morning Consult on December 13, 2020. With more than 47,600 Americans dying from opioid overdoses in 2017 alone, our nation’s opioid crisis is...